(1) The European Police College (CEPOL) was established by Council Decision 2005/681/JHA as an entity of the Union with the aim of training senior police officers of the Member States and facilitating cooperation between national police forces by organising and coordinating training activities with a European policing dimension.

Such areas could be, depending on national structures, senior police chiefs or prosecutors, heads of training institutes, heads of prison administrations, general directors of customs administration.

There is therefore a need to facilitate the cultural preparation and initiation of the persons concerned into living, learning and working practices in different European countries, as well as their return under appropriate conditions, namely by training relevant contact persons of the target groups (university teachers and administrators, vocational teachers and trainers, teachers and head teachers, staff of sending and hosting organisations) interculturally, and to encourage educational and training establishments to appoint staff to coordinate and facilitate their intercultural training.

to facilitate cultural preparation for and initiation into living, learning and working practices in host countries, as well as social reintegration back into the home community, in particular by training relevant contact persons of the target groups (university teachers and administration, vocational teachers and trainers, teachers and head teachers, staff of sending and hosting organisations etc.) interculturally, and to encourage educational institutions to appoint staff to coordinate and facilitate their intercultural training;

If the fight against organised financial crime is to be taken seriously, there is an overriding need to prioritise financial crime among Police Chiefs' responsibilities and to make adequate provision for the necessary resource and training needs within police and judicial authorities.

coordinate regular training sessions for senior national and regional police officers which focus in particular on existing European police and judicial cooperation, police cooperation between the Member States, human rights policy, the political and socio-economic situation in the European Union, where relevant to the aims of such training, best practices in the Member States in the field of service provision, innovation, crime prevention and non-repressive police ...[+++] measures, in each case with regard to the exercise of police tasks, on the basis of harmonised programmes;